Europe Rallies to Czechs As Benes Keeps 500,000 Men Ready for Nazi War
Europe Rallies to Czechs As Benes Keeps 500,000 Men Ready for Nazi War Duce Warns Hitler That Invasion Now Might Break Axis New Move by Fuehrer Expected Daily aa German Dictator Seeks to...
...A devastating rumor had been circulated that the reduction was JQjilailT the salaries of the executives...
...American, Nasi Planes Included in Rebel Air Force...
...After the defeat of Martin in Oregon by the Ickes-indorsed Hess, the Secretary of the Interior's prestige as the leader of the Democrats' radical wing went sky-high...
...This will give the President four new pro-labor judges in addition to Justices Black...
...Loans have also been provided ¦P»*le the Rural Electrification Bureau to function...
...The electoral problems of the British working class are not exactly those of the men and women in this country, but there are principles and methods that are basic for both nations...
...He was opposed by Leon Jouheaux, president of the French Federation of Labor...
...Artillery on Border The Czechs have their fine artillery squadrons all along the northern, southern and western borders, backed up by three frontline concretized trenches...
...These are the questions the politicians are asking themselves and everyone else 'jn close contact with the inner political circles Some see the National Progressives working out as the opening Roosevelt has been seeking to realign the liberal, labor and progressive forces in the nation...
...At least two Justices of the Supreme Court are considering retirement or resignation when this session ends...
...While he waits for the answers to vital political questions, all of which will reshape the course of the nation in 1938, Roosevelt keeps pumping out funds to support the 20,000,000 people whose breadwinners were forced out of private industry...
...he thundered...
...let us not be disturbed by these unseemly manifestations...
...Whether -war -will flare up during the next few weekends in Europe depend* on Hitter's reaction to the first international defeat Nazi Germany has known in the five rears of its absolute power...
...P the Goose Steppers, who instantly adopted a provision k^**»»«at these loans...
...Order today...
...Special to The New Leader OSLO, Norway...
...Most of those in the informed and n awe paper centers here interpreted the visit of the fascist Foreign Minister Gale&zzo Ciano to the new German Ambassador to Italy, Hans-Georg Viktor von Mackensen, as definite evidence of Italy's new policy of attempting to ease up her rather strained relations with the Western European powers...
...the subject was printed in the American Medical Association's journal, no medical publication has discussed it, while the Federal Department of .Labor began an investigation into the disease only a few months ago despite calls for a probe for the past three years by the scientists Gordy and Trumper...
...Here, youse guys, cut that all out...
...With the scrambled progressive and labor forces waiting definite action and strong leadership, moves for coalition and realignment may begin sooner than is generally expected...
...These may start when Tory Democrats revolt aver the coming SuprerrtaVCourt sitMition...
...Throngh his well integrated foreign espionage service, Hitler learned earlier in the week that he couldn't count on a single nationnot even Italy—to come to Ins assistance if he moved a single Nazi soldier across the Caeeh border...
...And "peace," at Hull...
...With peculiar satisfaction, I notice that among admirable cestsi— of industry whose value to humanity has thus been partly recognized is Mr...
...I was bat citing the teachings of our most revered classrooms...
...or the late lamented N.I.R.A...
...When I brought to she world's attention his desperate penury his salary was only . : «'|IM*$ a year...
...Hitler knows that any dictatorship is built oi> the myth of infallibility...
...The two Sudeten Nazis, Georg Hoffman and Nikolas Boehm, who were shot and killed when they tried to motorcycle past the border police after repeated warnings to stop, were headed for Dresden, just as hundreds of other Nazis have been during the past year...
...there are still more important considerations of the ,, national welfare...
...Later by a vote of 14 to 7 the Council severed all connections with the Soviets by deciding to break off negotiations which have been conducted for some two years...
...THE UTILITIES T*AT the Superior Intellect of this order is not strained to keep g?k rule over disciplined, obedient Congressmen, well drilled in the Step, was illustrated last week by a delectable incident...
...What not only F.D.R...
...But, you doubt the peculiar and refulgent intellectual brilliance of our One Per Cent, seek for a few minutes of conKtion with some of them...
...The •auency of the Harlan method is beyond dispute and may be deaaaed upon to show the path of duty to any persons disposed to listen, to the preachments of demagogues...
...These ailments are generated by carbon disulfide which is a vital factor in rayon production by the viscose process...
...A Labor Relations Board campaign to counter the criticism of its administration of the Wagner Act is in the making at the insistence of the White House Plans Not Ready Informed groups here feel that not even the President has definitely formulated plans along those lines, but is marking time while he drives to put business on the spot by making them put up funds for their beloved "private initiative" or else shut down their anti-New Deal propaganda agencies...
...BOYCOTT MOVE AGAINST SCHMEUNG FIGHT GROWS A boycott movement sponsored by the Anti-Nazi League is growing fast today against Max Schmeling, who is scheduled to fight June 22 for the post of Nazi Director of Athletes, for hundreds of thousands of dollars destined for Germany, for the congratulations of Adolph Hitler, for a chance for Nazis to advance "Aryan supremacy," and for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...This decision, cottar...
...v- -When the matter came before the Senate Appropriation C#«u«ittee, Der Fuehrer of the Power Trust knew easily •**»*h what to do...
...Next Week: Why British Labor Turned Down the "Popular Front" IN next week's edition of The New Leader will be published for the first time in this country the full recent statement of the National Executive Committee of the British Labor Party on policy, principles and tactics of that party...
...Two doctors, Max Trumper and Samuel F. Gordy, both experts in the field of poisoning, this month finally spoke out against the widespread danger to laborers in any factory where the viscose process of rayon manufacture is used...
...At the same time, unions are demanding that, the companies eomply fully with the Mexican constitution by paying 20,000 workers three months' wages which, under the law, fell due when the oil firms broke their labor contracts prior to the expropriation...
...Indeed, it is gratifying to note that instead of diminishing in any .way the beggarly compensation paid to the railroad officers, their immense contributions to the general welfare have' been recognized with substantial increases...
...While the entire world indcattal setup seeks to force Mexican abandon its liberal labor tegiintion...
...Harvard, and Columbia and Cornell and the rest, ,. and who am I to question such eminent authority...
...Some ribald commentators point out that the German minority in .-, Czechoslovakia does not suffer half the injustice endured by the Nationalist minority in the Six Counties, who are denied ly a gerrymander of their natural representation in the legislature and heavily taxed to support a political status that taey abhor...
...Its favorable report this week followed an announcement that hearings on a similar resolution would open on Friday before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...Because it is net merely for the salvation of the benevolent railroad companies that the wage reductions are to be made...
...have attacked the Cedillo drive in public statements as fascist-inspired, and this week asked the government for guns to drive out the insurgents...
...Rumania, which could open Germany's back door to Russian troops, blared Its anti-Nazi attitude through the Codreanu trial...
...Clement, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...Undoubtedly the Nazis will not back down again without some valuable concession to save their face...
...FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL SB must be a joy to the English tax-payer to contemplate in the .latest budget speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the revelation that to maintain the separation of the Six Northern Counties ¦p the rest of Ireland costs the English government $45,000,000 Lfplr'' - Also to.know that of the 12 cents in the pound now to be added to the income tax rate, 5 cents goes to pay for the same partition...
...Railroad presidents that before had been obliged to exist upon pittances of $60,000 or $75,000 a year are now to receive $100,000 or $120,000, to the obvious stimulation of the automobile, gold ball and patchouli industries...
...Prog., Wis...
...Colonel Beck of Poland was promised aid by Denmark, Norway and Sweden...
...Attempts of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania to force the American Viscose Company to install safeguards against carbon disulfide poisoning resulted recently in the company moving its...
...F. D. R. Relief Program To Match 1933 Drive * By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—When the New Dealers, led by the president, took the ball away from what had previously appeared to be an unbeatable combination of reactionary Democrats and Republicans, it had a plunging strategy up its sleeve which is only now becoming apparent...
...if the progressive wing of the Democrats finds itself in coalition with the political forces of Labor and the numerous Progressive parties at that time...
...If that doesn't convince you of the truth of the ***ory that the rich are supernaturally ordained (and fitted) to nlc, nothing else will...
...e operations naturally irked the Power Trust, compelled to p*$e with excessive rates the dividends on its fictitious capitalization...
...Insiders, kept guessing by the friendly talks of Bob LaFollette and trie President, now feel that Roosevelt has been definitely assured that the aspirations of the National Progressive Party and the New Deal are the same...
...Poland fell in line with Great Britain and France...
...An indignant correspondent takes me •task for this suggestion and says that it is physically impossible pf .one man to have a billion times more brains than the average...
...Twentyfive thousand dollars is made available to get the inquiry under way...
...As it is obvious they can have no legitimate use I far all this money, the conclusion is inevitable that they are using it in subersive agitation against our form of government —no doubt at the instigation of Moscow...
...How soon can the Supreme Court be counted on as a 100 per cent New Deal...
...The Czech air force is the best in Europe, as Hitler would _50on discover...
...MEXICO CITY:—While American and British oil companies, working with Nazi agents, arm General Cedillo and pay for his revolt against the Mexican government, labor unions in this country are demonstrating their support of the government and their determination to prevent the oil interests from reclaiming the wells and reinstalling whatever labor conditions they choose...
...Far be it from me to seem to insist upon my own poor . errors...
...The facts speak for themselves...
...The rate is a cent n copy in bundles of 100 or more...
...It's one of the most important documents ever adopted by the Labor Party and deals with a problem common to Labor and Social Democratic parties in other nations...
...All Europe seemed to torn against Hitler this week...
...For two or three years it has been the policy of the Administration * ***tot with loans Under the Public Works such municipalities as "¦Jut wish to own their utility plants...
...Labor Backs Gov't As Oil Firms Pay For Cedillo Revolt Oil Companies Owe Workers $100,000,000...
...Profiteers Pace Grill The Senate Committee on Commerce was given $25,000 to investigate profiteering, devoting particular attention to widespread charges that monopolies are defrauding both producers and consumers...
...Special to The New Leader LONDON...
...K Keep in step with the mask of 1 a b o r—Read The Net Leader regularly...
...Also because, while denouncing the slaughter of Chinese women and children it was perpetrating another Amritzar in India...
...In it the Labor Party combats proposals that it abandon its independence and the methods which have made it the great force that it has become in British politics...
...Ye...
...Send your bundle orders without delay...
...As usual in this town, where rumors develop rapidly, "Honest Harold Ickes' " liberal reputation, aided by his tight on the monopolies and the Nazis, has already made him a logical contender for the 1940 Presidential nomination...
...I am told that there are crossing men emfm peoyed by^some of these too generous railroads that receive r each as fJW a menta, and switchmen that are paid $90 or even $100...
...The statement is the one declining the various invitations for a "Popular Front" in Great Britain...
...Council...
...Insanity Hits Workers In Rayon Industry A wave of chemical insanity has been sweeping the rayon industry for years while a majority of medical men have been silent and manufacturers have resisted all efforts of authorities to insure sanitary factory conditions...
...Worried by the sharp drop industry has taken just before the summer lull and, as usual, with his political ears attuned to the dissatisfaction which labor and progressive circles express at the continued, hopeless unemployment of some 15,000,000 "capable men and women, President Roosevelt has dropped word that he will scratch off the record hope for "normal recovery" and is ready to begin new ventures on the scale of the P.W.A...
...Some even go so far as to make scurrilous comment about the horror expressed by the English government over the bombing of Chinese villages when it was doing the same thing at South Arabia...
...Czechs Take No Chances Despite Nazi pressure, more men are being called to the colors by the Czechs, who are taking no chances...
...The Senate Committee on Audit and Control this week opened its heart and made available $140,000 to defray the expenses of four probes which are expected to produce interesting developments...
...Since the government is not greatly disturbed by the San Luis Potosi uprising and previous similar appeals have been rejected, it is believed that Cardenas regime will politely refuse to furnish arms to the labor federations...
...Order extra copies for general distribution...
...Young Bob" has already dug up a mass of sordid facts and asked and got $60,000 to complete the job...
...asked for $25,000,000, he offered them a billion...
...and the Regional Confederation of Mexican Labor (C.R.O.M...
...It is thus that we fulfill our duties as trustees of the nation's wealth and scatter benefits all along the line...
...No, indeed...
...The Mexican Labor Board has already ordered the companies to pay the wages due plus all other sums incurred in the argument...
...First steps in the present boycott move were taken two weeks ago when the women's committee of the League picketed the offices of Mike Jacobs, promoter of, the bout...
...An offer by the League to call off the boycott if the Nasi offers to tarn his share of the purse over to the fund for the relief of refugees from Germany met ae response from the fighter Or Kike...
...Ever since the resolution has been hanging fire in the Committee on Audit and Control...
...business into Virginia and West Virginia, where hypical southern laxity towards labor conditions today permits it to continue production of rayon with no steps whatsoever taken to prevent the spread of chemical disease...
...Last fall the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce reported out a resolution calling for an investigation of radio, with particular reference to any undue influence that may have been, exercised by powerful broadcasting interests on the Federal Communications Commission...
...As revealed in a recent dispatch to The New Leader, they motor into Dresden, receive orders, give information on the technical military defenses of the Czechs, and shoot back into the Sudeten the same night...
...The Mexican Workers Confederation (C.G.T...
...Matthew Woll, who spoke for the A. F. of_ L. in supporting Citrine, told the Council that the American Federation of Labor would have to withdraw if the Communist unions were admitted...
...There is a large corps of these Nazi cyclists which can be armed at a few hours' notice...
...Can't Evade Debt Consequently, the oil companies will be unable to again seek to evade the provisions of the Mexican constitution by refusing to pay, since the government of Mexico will insist that (failure of the oil interests to turn over 100,000,000 dollars to the workers is tantamount to payment of that sum to the companies by the government...
...Though I amae say in patting that their riotous conduct sometimes causes eat to httitate about bestowing these benefits...
...They know that Dresden, some thirty miles from the border, has for months been the headquarters of the general staff in charge of taking the Sudeten from the Czeohs...
...Justice Cardozo, who hasn't been well, and Brandeis, who has been anxious to leave the heavy work of the Court, will probably go after McReynolds and Butler' leave...
...Delegates from Great Britain, the Unit|d States, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and Holland, arguing that admission of the Soviet Unions and accepting the stipulations they laid down before the council, would be contrary to the basic principles of democracy, against the spirit of the I.F.T.U., and of no aid in the fight against international fascism, voted down the representatives of France—2—, of Spain, and Mexico...
...while the Little Entente made ft plain that they would play ball with the democracies...
...You can see for yourr self that this must be stopped...
...Government health officials have generally been as silent as leading medical journals in refusing to investigate the spread of chemical diseases throughout the rayon industry...
...He may not always show the bulging aetTto' ,e*rn1*** tnlt y#u bct ne knows what he wants and IFTU Bars Soviet Unions-Breaks Off All Negotiations Communist Organizations Rejected by 164 Vote of International Federation of Trade Unions' Gert- era...
...I Isara that among the English rabblement there is some disposition to scoff at the unction and grave face with which the English ministry lately urged upon Czechoslovakia good will and concessions in regard to the German minority...
...Clement will not bother to thank me...
...Citrine argued that the Soviet unions would be no asset to the Federation since they weren't free and were bound to follow the dictates of Stalin, who had already smashed the prestige of the Soviet by his intermittent mass purges...
...After he had some half a million of his best reserves strategically placed along the 1,300-mile front, with heavy concentrations along the weak defensive zone on the Austrian border, he directed the fortifications which went up at a terrific rate...
...Thank you...
...but the entire high command of the New Deal want to know can be boiled down to something like this: Questions Worrying Politicians Is the New Deal to lose Congress to a combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats ? Will the 1938 depression cause the same voter-reaction against Roosevelt and the New Deal as it did against Hoover and his "red apple" selling period...
...Italy Urges Caution The pay-off came when Italy, despite the recent Nazi-Roman holiday, urged the Reich to go easy before it took on too much, and smashed the axis...
...Last winter I made public the sad case of this deserving patriot and earnestly begged for his relief, sugfeating that contributions in his behalf would be acknowledged in the columns of The New Leader...
...The last two' are the backbone of the reactionary bloc...
...The Skoda works, ami small decentralized factories set well back away from the danger zone, have> been on triple shift turning out huge tanks, munitions, machine guns, bombs, gas masks for every man, woman, child, and even their pets...
...It has now been increased to $100,000 a year...
...The international prestige of Nazism has taken fts first nose dive and only new expert maneuvering will keep Hitler from marching into the Sudeten within the next few months...
...Since 1905, when an article on...
...Besides the troops and air bases centered in and about Dresden, the Nazis have a miniature fleet of armed motor craft ready to speed down the Elbe into Czechoslovakia...
...There is talk again of appointing a layman to the bench...
...Bat I hope Mr...
...While the plant managers concede ©that a majority of the workers support the strike and that it is therefore legal,"they have refused to comply with a Mexican law requiring them to show justcause for a recent decision to cut production to a two-days-s-ein schedule...
...Betide*, Mr...
...boycott drives against tat a* tion have not been successful President Cardenas announced, itfore his recent visit to Sal Las Potosi, that contracts for fURc 550 have already been sigans oil «ince the expropriation 8f UK $400,000,000 foreign oil Kokbafi In addition, Cardenas ha posed otrt that while 40' < of the oil en needed for domestic purposes, HI is at hand for foreign sale, tin enabling-the government to eajE meet all indemnities...
...For months now, some 78,000 men have been at feverish work on camouflaged big cannon and machine gun emplacements...
...Faced this time by an almost completely unfriendly Europe, instead of a weak minor power, Hitler backed down when the Czechs, supported, by over 560,000 of the Continent s best equipped and most efficient soldiers, called the Nasi bluff...
...If rude, boisterous persons attempt to stir up railroad wage earners against a proper subsJsmb to the reduction of their opulent pay, they will be met with ¦¦a a convincing demonstration of the supremacy of law and order mats so often been witnessed in Harlan County, Kentucky...
...Woll asked...
...When the Commodity Credit Corporation asked for $200,000,000, he offered them two billions—all in an attempt to get business to invest "those billions of idle dollars" which the big corporations claim are lying about waiting for "confidence" to be restored...
...Scores of workers in the industry are incurably stricken and lodged in insane asylums, with thousands more daily exposed to fits pf hysteria and temporary blindness...
...Europe Rallies to Czechs As Benes Keeps 500,000 Men Ready for Nazi War Duce Warns Hitler That Invasion Now Might Break Axis New Move by Fuehrer Expected Daily aa German Dictator Seeks to Save Face...
...In an article published by the American Medical Ass'n, Trumper and Gordy reported cases of brain disease in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia...
...A fourth investigation "okayed" will go into the question of profitsharing systems between employers and employees, It will be conducted by the Senate Finance Committee, which w«» given $30,000...
...But with Hitler smarting under the world's crowing over his bluff being called by one of the smallest countries in the world, one one can predict peace or war...
...When the R.F.C...
...THE NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL -a>J almost audible sigh of relief passed over the country one day <f» lift week when our better circles learned the facts about the .ijfUption of wages planned by the railroad companies...
...jjJMWP ORDER—A LA HARLAN /U}E thing we can reasonably expect...
...We can ¦••atably remember that when our end of the imperialist combination ¦Wges in massacre it is for the sake of the gospel...
...Close to the border can be seen long ones of freshly strung barbed wire, much of which is electrified...
...Stone and Reed, leaving the vacillating Roberts aftd Hughes standing alone...
...With her stake clearly in with England and France, and with her stooge Franco unable to make headway against the determined Loyalists without nearly a billion dollars' worth of equipment and thousands of new men, Italy can't afford to buck the financial interests in London and the combined military forces of Britain, France, Czechoslovakia and the Russians...
...To say that the reward of Ids virtues so richly merited and now bestowed was the sole rcsalt of my eloquent pleadings would be foreign to my native ¦odesty...
...was the actual cant 4 the strike...
...The full strength of the League will be swung into the fight when ticket sales start May 20...
...While the Oil Workers Union is at present making a thorough investigation to determine how much is now owed to workers in the oil fields, preliminary surveys indicate that the sum will be approximately $100,000,000...
...jfc ."H«H der Faehrer...
...The German envoy was bluntly told that Hitler was to go easy andf "at any cost prevent a war...
...We urge that oar readers circulate next week's issue everywhere...
...From an authoritative source ft was made clear that this is without foundation...
...that is...
...It is a pleasure to me to do a good deed like that...
...This entire amount, the union has agreed, will be turned over to the government to help pay indemnities on the expropriation...
...It is an excellent discussion of ideals and principles and considers the proposals of alliances with the "right" and the "left," analyses them on the basis of the history of the Labor Party, its program, its promises and fts claims...
...Anything else today...
...Clement will now be able to buy another automobile ad that will kelp the men out of work in Flint or Detroit...
...Soviet trade unions were denied admission to Abe International Federation of Trade Unions here last week when the International's General Council, meeting in its regular yearly session, voted 16 to 4 against accepting the conditions placed before the council by the Russians...
...From the standpoint of labor, the most important will be continuation of the investigation of industrial spies and espionage by the Senate Committee headed by Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr...
...With the Supreme Court entirely his, Roosevelt will be in "a position to renew his drives of 1933 which were later declared unconstitutional...
...to reports circulated by the FM interests throughout Mi liis jff the U.S...
...New Senate Quizes Will Turn Heat on Business Chiseling WASHINGTON, D. C. - The capitol is going to hum with investigations during the recess of Congress...
...How can we fight against dictatorship if we go hand in hand with Stalin...
...The Senate investigation will be made by a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee, to be named by Chairman Burton K. Wheeler (Dem., Mont...
...The DuPont family is one of the major figures in the rayon industry, as well as one of the heaviest contributors to medical research bureaus, which have in the main shied away from any investigations of the rayon industrial diseases...
...Can the administration continue its successful policy of influencing important primary fights...
...Are the LaFollettes going to make a splash with their new "Third Party...
...Henry Ford, for a shining pie...
...The full statement will prove of great educational value and interest to politically conscious ¦ workers in the United States...
...He directed the quiet mobilization so well that most of Europe's military attaches in Praha didn't know about it until hours after the order went out...
...Were any other nation involved, the Czechs could feel safe behind their small but well trained forces...
...Fifty-seven planes are at the 'disposal of the rebels, including late-model German bombers in addition to several Howard planes built in the United States and shipped to the fascists via Brownsville, Texas...
...Peace," and to avoid "complications.'1 v*AIMS AMD BILLIONS | ONCE made a remark in these columns to the effect that according SyjsW enlightened sociology of our best newspapers, the men that **annnlate great fortunes do so only because of a vast superiority of BP|<Ct Therefore, Henry Ford, having a billion dollars, must have •brain a billion times greater than the workman in one of his fae***» that has only one dollar...
...Only the incomes of common working persons are to be affected—these men that operate the engines, firemen, trainmen, switch men (I think they are called) and persons of that order...
...Head oa Gum Although he bent backwards in hif efforts to conciliate the Sudeten Nazis, Czech Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta, in the words of one of the Labor Party leaders hens, "kept one hand on his heart and the other on his gun...
...Citrine Leads Fight Walter Citrine, president of the International and general Secretary of the British Trade Union Congress led the fight against accepting the Stalinite organizations...
...Ford Violates Constitution Foreign capital in this country again sought to disregard the Mexican constitution recently when a strike broke out in the Ford plants here...
...Proof that oil firms behind Cedillo are playing hand in hand with Nazi agents who also have a share in the revolt is found in the origin of the airplanes flown by the Cedil-* listas...
...Those eligible to retire are Justices McReynolds, Butler and Brandeis...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 22
